The first photograph in this week’s trip down West Fife's Memory Lane shows gardeners working on floral displays outside the original hothouses in Pittencrieff Park.

They preceded the ones that are there today, and they are the hothouses that Betty McCaig recalls clearly: “That’s how I remember them. The new ones were never the same.

"I remember being taken to see bananas growing there. I had never seen one before.

"I believe they were given to a hospital or home for sick children.”

The next image is a view over the formal gardens to the original hothouses.

Our next photograph shows some of the Carnegie Dunfermline trustees at the opening of the present hothouses in Pittencrieff Park in the early 1970s.

These newer hothouses are the ones that people like Lynn Dunlop remember: “My husband and I were married there.

"The staff were fantastic. Usually people only went there for photographs but we had the whole ceremony there."

Rachel McCord also recalls them: “I remember them so well when I was small – so many happy memories of the Glen, the paddling pool, the bandstand and the Gala days."

Trish Thomas recalls the tropical fruit that was grown inside them: “Many memories of visiting as a child when dropping off or collecting my grandad from the naval dockyard. Always fascinated by the bananas!"

Edith Young looked back and said: “I loved the greenhouses and I think it is what gave me such a love of plants and gardens.

"So thankful for this Glen where I spent so much time.”

Shona Cunningham Dryburgh picked up a handy tip too: “I remember the gardener in there going along tapping on the clay pots with a stick.

"The noise it made let him know if they needed watering.”

Maureen Tomlin no longer lives in Dunfermline but does remember visiting: “I enjoyed visiting them on a cold winter's Sunday morning when we were living in Dunfermline from 1970 to 1978.”

Paul Robertson credits the hothouses for his love of gardening: “Those hothouses gave me a lifelong passion for cacti, fronds, succulents and tropical plant life.

"I adored being there as a kid."

And Liz McGrouther enjoyed the areas inside the greenhouses: "I loved the old greenhouse, the different doors you went through, the different temperatures and different smells.

"It was amazing with all the plants you had never seen before.”

Our final photograph shows some of the ‘Friends of Pittencrieff Park’ volunteers working in the sensory garden that occupies the area in the Glen where the paddling pools used to be many years ago.

The group has organised a sale of plants and cuttings outside the hothouses on Sunday June 4 between 11am and 2pm.

The group welcome new volunteers and anyone interested in joining can contact them any Monday or Thursday morning, when they are working in Pittencrieff Park, and find out more about what they do.

More photographs like these can be seen in Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries as well as at facebook.com/olddunfermline.